Norway rules MP3 linking is illegal

GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us about this legal
development from Norway. The Inquirer is reporting that their legal system
has determined that even linking to illegallly gotten MP3 tracks is against the law.

NORWAY"S BEARDED and wigged ones have thrown a live hand-grenade into the search engine industry by ruling that publishing hyperlinks of stolen MP3s on websites is as illegal as piracy. The country's Supreme Court has upheld a lower court"s earlier ruling about a teenager named Frank Allan Bruvik who fell foul of Tono, the music industry"s lobby group in Norway. His site called napster.no allowed users to submit links to MP3 files. It soon became a list of links to MP3 files across the Web.

The article goees on to quote another websites comment
that posed the thought that this precedent would make Google liable for indexing
such information. Sounds like a can of worms has been opened. Speaking of links,
here is the one
to the original article from the Inquirer if you wnt to check it out.

Source: The Inquirer